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Long Story Short: What Is the Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Newly Insured Patients?

The Affordable Care Act created health insurance exchanges, or marketplaces, to offer consumers affordable healthcare coverage through subsidies. In this video interview, Brandy Farrar, AIR researcher, explains what Californian consumers think about their experiences with Covered California, their state's health insurance marketplace. AIR and the California HealthCare Foundation together studied the experiences of consumers and providers with their marketplace.

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AIR Institute Fellow Marilyn Moon provides commentary on the June 28, 2012 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the Affordable Care Act, which requires individuals to have health insurance. In her commentary, Moon notes that a shift in the health care debate to a more constructive examination of what needs fixing is now needed to move forward.

Marilyn Moon, Institute Fellow and director of AIR's Institute on Aging, writes in the Los Angeles Times about how the fight over the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare) is reminiscent of the furor over Medicare's beginnings in 1966.